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The Kennington Triangle

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Kennington Observer

A fellow local blog, South Kennington Partnership, has suggested that the triangle between Kennington Park Road, Brixton Road and Camberwell New Road be renamed The Kennington Triangle, with its current name The Kennington Oval being reserved for the cricket ground. We agree wholeheartedly.

Some surprising objects have appeared in The Kennington Triangle in recent times.

During the Olympics, this giant shot put landed there:

And during a recent clean-up operation, the disembodied head of Pete Waterman was found:

(photo borrowed from the South Kennington Partnership website)

The International Maritime Organisation

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Kennington Observer

The International Maritime Organisation is headquartered in North West Kennington, near Lambeth Bridge. They have an impressive collection of flags on the front of the building, and the ship you can see poking out of the front continues all the way back for some 300 metres, with the rest of the building having been constructed around it.

Make Space Studios

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Kennington Observer

Make Space Studios is a complex of arts and craft studios run by the people behind Studio 180. If you want to see handbags made out of recycled material, screen printing of posters for leading alternative bands, and savagely accurate parodies of twee middle class consumerist products, get along to their Christmas open evening ~~today~~ tomorrow, Thursday, from 4pm to 9pm (sorry we got the date wrong initially). There will be mince pies, mulled wine and special magic punch*.

Make Space runs alongside the railway lines going in to Waterloo Station, while the entrance is on Newnham Terrace in North Kennington, opposite Lambeth North Tube. They also have an art gallery, The Simulator Gallery.

Follow the pink bannister below to enter and on no account allow yourself to be diverted into CP Hart, the world’s largest and therefore most terrifying bathroom showroom.

* we can’t be sure but it seems like that kind of place

Kevin Spacey: Kennington will always be my home

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Kennington Observer

Kevin has heeded our call and says he will always have a home in Kennington.

For your throat’s sake smoke…

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Kennington Observer

Above is a ghost sign on Brixton Road in South Kennington – but what is the brand of cigarettes that were so good for the throat? And what’s the penultimate word – “THE WORLD’S PREMIER CO***** CIGARETTE”? Whoever comes first with the answers will be rewarded with a free Durning Library postcard – and we all know the real value of those.

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